Sanitary head for drinking-fountains.



R.V.10RDAN. SANITARY HEAD FOR DRINKING FOUNTAINS.

APPLICATION HLED [El-5| l9l7.

" Patented Dec. 18, 1917,

ROY v; JORDAN, or rrnnam, ILLINOIS.

. Sl LNILII-LR Y HEAD FOR DRINKING-FOUNTAINS;

Application filed February 5, 1917.

To all whom it may concern Be it .known that citizen of the United States, residing at Herrin, in the county of Williamson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements for Drinking-Fountains,Iof which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to drinking fountains and more particularly to the sanitary drinking fountains which are now in use wherein a bubble ofwater is formed to which the drinker applies his lips.

The general object of my invention is to provide a fountain of this character so constructed that the water cannot -be:contami nated at its source of supply and in this connection to provide a fountain wherein the water is notforced upward through a bubbler which is disposed directly below the place where the drinker applies his lips but in which the water is forced from a protected source in jets, these jets meeting at the central point to form the bubble or cone of water.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fountain of this character with a sanitary head so constructed as to provide for the formation of the cone or bubble of water as before described and also provide means for protecting the-water-from con tamination as it issues from the head and provide means for conducting the drippings from the drinkers mouth down to the basin or bowl below the fountain so as to keep the fountain sanitary at alltimes.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein I Figure 1. is a top plan view of a drinking fountain constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, the bowl being partly broken away.

Referring'to these figures, 10 designates a central supply pipe having at its upper end a head or cap 11 which is screw threaded on the central supply pipe and provided with a plurality of radiating legs 12. These legs enter at their ends into a circular supply pipe or head 13 formed upon its inside face wlth a plurality of openings 14, these openings being radially disposed and directed centrally and slightly upward- Speeification'of Letters Patent.

1, RorV. JORDAN, a

in Sanitary Heads.

, 15 which supported upon Serial No. 146,788.

to a pointijust. above the cap 11 so streams of water forced from these openings will meet at a central point, as illustrated in Fig. 2 and will there form a cone or bubble of'water by the impact of the streams against each other. In order to protect the water where it issues from the perforations 14, I provide theannular hood may be made of porcelain, enameled metal, or any other suitable and sanitary material. This annulus 15 is transversely curved so as to fit over the pipe 13 and the inside. face of the annulus is serrated so as to provide a plurality of approximately triangular projectionsor points 16 and 17.. The triangular projections or points 17 are alternate to the points 16 and are turned upward while the points 16 turn downward. The upwardly turned points'17 extend inward sufliciently to protect the openin projectlons or points are angular in form so as to deflect any saliva or dripping water laterally to the downwardly extending proj ections or points 16. These direct the water or othermatterdownward and cause it to Patented Dec. 18,1917.

that 1 s 14 and these upward triangular drop into thebowl' A disposed below the fountain. The outer edge of the annulus 15 is also serrated toflprovide downwardly extending triangular-points 18 which conduct any water or other matter dripping upon the upper face of the hood downward into the'bowl A below. The hood is to be the circular pipe 13 in any suitable manner and may be either permanently attached to connected thereto. It will upturned serrations water to pass outward from the distributing be seen that the device and meet to form a cone of water in the center of the circle described by the circular pipe 13 but that they extend over the openings 14 in such a manner that nothing can fall on these sources of supply. The serrations which are turned downward are designed, through gravity and surface ten-' sion, to lead waste matter falling from the mouth of the drinker to their points and alv low this matter to drip down between the supply streamswithout touching them and to fall into the waste bowl.

It will be seen that my. invention is very simple, that it may be cheaply and read ly constructed, that it may have an attractive ornamental form, and that it is particularly adapted to provide a thoroughly sanitary this pipe or detachably 17 allow the streams of 1 ject the source of drinking fountain of the character described.

.laving described my invention, what I claim is: V

1. A sanitary drinking fountain including means for discharging water in a series of converging jets, and .an annular hood extending over the said means and inward beyond the bases of the jets to thereby prosaid jets, said hood being transversely curved downward toward its inner margin and said inner margin of the hood being formed to direct waste matter falling on the hood to those portions of the hood disposed between the jets.

2. In a sanitary drinking fountain, a circular pipe connected to a source of supply and having a plurality of jet openings upon its inside face converging toward a common center, and an annular hood extending over the circular pipe, said hood upon its inner face being formed to provide a plurality of downwardly extending points disposed between the jet openings, the inner edge of the hood above the jet openings being formed to direct waste matter falling on the hood toward said points.

3. In a sanitary drinking fountain, a circular pipe connected to a source of supply and'having a plurality of jet openings upon its inside face converging toward a common center, an annular hood extending over the circular pipe,.said hood upon its inner face being formed to provide a plurality of downwardly extending points disposed between the jet openings, the inner edge of the hood, above the jet openings being formed with upwardly and outwardly projecting pointed portions angular in cross section to direct matter falling thereon to the downwardly extending serrations or points. 7

i. In a drinking fountain, a circular head connected to a source of water supply and having a plurality of jet openings on its i'nnerface converging toward a central point and a hood extending over the head and having downwardly extending points on its inside face disposed between said jet openings and downwardly extending points upon its'outer edge, and means above the jet openings for directing waste matter to the first named points.

A sanitary fountain of the character described including a bowl, a supply pipe extending upward in the center of the bowl and having a cap at its upper end, radiating hollow legs extending from the cap, a circular pipe carried by said legs and supplied thereby and having a plurality of jet openings upon its inner face, the openings converging at a point directl 1 above they cap, a hood extending over the circular pipe and having downwardly extending pointed portions upon its outer and inner edges, the downwardly extending pointed portions on its inner edge being disposed between said jet openings, the hood being formed between the jet openings to direct waste matter downward toward said pointed portions of the hood. V

In testimonywhereof I hereunto afiix my signatureinthe presence of two witnesses.

Q i ROY V. JORDAN. Witnesses STANLEY ,Knnns,

O. W. CURRY.

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